Need Help from Pros!!!

dperry11273 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-31-2005, 11:45 AM

Newbie to the board.

My site www.carpalrelief.com , is not getting visitors. 5 years ago, I was able to get traffic on a different site I made. I guess the game has changed quite a bit since then. I've worked my title, keywords, description as best that I can.

My friend is selling the stuff for me as well on his site (http://www.slimstore.com/carpal.htm) and he's getting decent traffic and listing without Meta
Tags!! I don't get it.

Can anyone glance at my site and give an amateur some pointers?

Thanks....

wrmineo · #2 (**permalink**) 08-31-2005, 12:44 PM

NOTE to anyone viewing - the link is NOT dead - take out the comma ...

greeneagle · #3 (**permalink**) 08-31-2005, 12:49 PM

I MODed so that it comes up correctly!
Ken

wrmineo · #4 (**permalink**) 08-31-2005, 12:58 PM

Now, on to a few observations ... :)

Quote:

src="file:///C%7C/temp/custom.php_files/index_data/javascript.js

»this would appear to be a file that did not upload to your server properly and is trying to pull from the "local machine"«

Your code is MISSING an ENCODING, i.e. utf-8

You have defined a style that is not css

Quote:

You have many other style elements defined in the code that would be better stated in a valid css file and free up your heavy code.

You have one heading use and it's ineffective

Quote:

ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME PAIN?

... besides, all-caps can really turn some people off and come across unintelligent, if not as yelling

Your <title> is positioned nicely as the first element under <head> but could use a little tweaking to avoid "stop" words, maybe something simple like:
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Natural Pain Supplement

Your page is way long IMO. Much of this could be broken up into sub pages that could stand on their own giving you a better content/keyword ratio.

The highlighting is "fugly" and distracting.

NONE of your images seem to have alt-tags with relevant text describing them. Many people ignore them, but two groups that don't:

1. visually impaired
2. bots - bots can not spider your images, but they can read the text in the alt tags

Your "About Us" doesn't link to anything - you're not gaining any legitimacy like that IMO!

Some of your images are huge in file size. i.e. middlepic.jpg is over 50K = many web users are still on dial-up; how long do you think they'll wait for this page to upload before they move on?

Personally, I find testimonials unimpressive as they're usually bogus, but again, that's just me.

Good Luck and Happy Ranking!

dperry11273 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-31-2005, 04:15 PM

I'm already working on the changes.

Do you know of any decent free submission sites that are worth a damn?

bhartzer · #6 (**permalink**) 08-31-2005, 04:26 PM

I would stay away from free submission sites.

Concentrate on getting links from sites that share your same topic. When it comes to links, you might want to take a look at the Google LocalRank algorithm--that explains the type of links you'll want to get to your website.